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- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
efficiently in the presence of the firm than in its absence. PDF not available. Cases & Course MaterialsAmorePacific Harvard Business School Note 507-070 Describes the dominant firm in the Korean cosmetics market up to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
interviews of over 80 individuals from 6 service delivery units and 8 support departments that provide them with equipment and supplies, we find that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments-rather than errors or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
individuals within the organization. Using unique data on lending decisions made by employees in a highly decentralized financial services organization, we show that a monitoring system that captures soft information for vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
health-care reform in this country, we have to frame it as a managerial challenge. It’s not simply a policy issue. We won’t improve the system as a whole until we’ve improved the performance of individual health-care delivery... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
responsibility of individual firms. The authors call for business to be both innovator and activist in protecting and strengthening market capitalism. Instead of seeing themselves as narrowly self-interested players in a system that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
today, while boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future. This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of the causes of societies’ material... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Review of Economics and Statistics The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-being Data By: De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel, George Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, and Michael I.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes by separately examining interpersonal team diversity (i.e., differences in experience across the entire team) and intrapersonal team diversity (i.e., whether View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
today, I don't know how the hell they would get this idea started. The other point is that the health care system policy thinking is dominated by the idea of economies of scale. But there are diseconomies of scale. You get too big and you... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Manage your network. Effective managers know they cannot avoid conflict and competition among organizational groups; they build and nurture ongoing relationships. Manage your team. Team members need to know what's required of them collectively and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
with less." Using data from 2006 to 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large firm, these effects can be measured and separated. For this firm, most of the gain in productivity during the recession was a result of increased... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
30, 1975). “In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer — the best attributes and the best price sells the product. From that day on I focused my attention on understanding what is important... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
experiences and debt loads. Specifically, individuals with lower levels of debt literacy tend to transact in high-cost manners, incurring higher fees and using high-cost borrowing. In applying our results to credit cards, we estimate that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
greetings, business cards, gift giving, dress, punctuality, body language, table manners, and so forth. Deeper cultural characteristics and their implications for the negotiation process itself. Below the surface are characteristics such as whether a culture is focused... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
something” Khaire: In the literature it is called a "blending strategy." The idea is there are multiple worlds in our society, and people are judged differently in each world. Take any individual and she behaves differently and... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-086.pdf Expectations, Network Effects and Platform Pricing Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract In markets with network effects, users must form expectations about the total number of users who join a given platform. In... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
have seen this, but Holly Fetter (MBA ’20) had a post illustrating examples of ways MBAs can individually make a difference. IV. Final Thoughts So, like Aaron, I am angry. My heart sinks because I know that as more Black people, young... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
effectiveness of groups, how perceivers use group properties to inform their judgment, and the contextual and individual differences that allow some perceivers to be more accurate. Across seven studies, we present consistent evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
between the manufacturing analysis we learned and making a movie,” he says. “With a movie, you take a dream — like somebody’s script — and break it into tiny pieces, or individual shots. A film typically contains hundreds of shots, and... View Details